Sentence examples for combat assignments from inspiring English sources

Jacob said that combat assignments and tours are seen as vital experience for those applying for jobs in the higher ranks of the military – and predicted that with the ban on combat removed, more and more women will be in significant positions of power in five or 10 years' time.

The current policy, signed in 1994 by Les Aspin, President Bill Clinton's defense secretary, drew the line at direct combat assignments, but rescinded the risk rule; by then, Operation Desert Storm had shown that anybody in a major combat theater was basically at risk.

However, a knee injury sustained previously on active duty disqualified her from further combat assignments.

Sixteen squadrons of Phantoms were permanently deployed between 1965 and 1973, and 17 others deployed on temporary combat assignments.

Because it's crucial to maintain the same physical standards for men and women in close combat assignments, the military should put into place long-term physical training programs to help women develop the abilities to meet those requirements.

An Army survey conducted last year by its Training and Doctrine Command revealed that 8percentt of female respondents held a high interest in serving combat assignments, while 20percentt showed moderate or high interest in those assignments, The State reports.

His first combat assignment, his relatives say, after being assigned to the Third Forward Support Battalion, Third Infantry Division, at Fort Stewart, was in Kosovo, where in 2001 American soldiers were helping to pick up the pieces after the conflict there.

Judge Roberts joined a unanimous decision of a three-judge panel in the case, ruling that Lieutenant Lohrenz's decision to pursue the combat assignment had turned her into a public figure.

"Now I get the waves and the high-five's and the 'we're with you's.' " Mr. Feliciano, a finance major who will be commissioned a second lieutenant after he graduates in the spring, has no idea whether he will receive a combat assignment.

While at Meridian, McCain requested a combat assignment.

He found instruction frustrating, as he longed for a combat assignment.